TivoHD rebooting. Recover recordings?

I have a THD that is stuck in rebooting loop. Replaced all the caps, which helped for a couple months. Replaced drive, restored with MFSLive, no change. Tried original drive, no change. If it tries to phone home or go to program guide, instant reboot. There must be something other than PS and HDD broken.

Rather than keep messing around with this, I'm planning to get into a Roamio. What options do I have to access the recordings? If I could transfer them to a eSATA drive, that might work. I think this is a function is in MFSLIVE?

I have a THD that is stuck in rebooting loop. Replaced all the caps, which helped for a couple months. Replaced drive, restored with MFSLive, no change. Tried original drive, no change. If it tries to phone home or go to program guide, instant reboot. There must be something other than PS and HDD broken.

Rather than keep messing around with this, I'm planning to get into a Roamio. What options do I have to access the recordings? If I could transfer them to a eSATA drive, that might work. I think this is a function is in MFSLIVE?

When you replaced the drive, did you copy the old one to the new one, restore from an image previously made from the old one, or restore an image you got from someone else that came from someone else's TiVo?

Is there an external drive already connected to the TiVo?

(If you were thinking of hooking an eSATA to the TiVo's port and copying shows to it from the TiVo to restore to a different TiVo later, that's the kind of thing that the content providers are constantly screaming at TiVo about and TiVo is taking measures to prevent)

Re: the drive replacement, I used MFSLive to clone the drive to an identical drive. I also had the original replacement drive (500gb) that I left untouched after the upgrade to 1TB. I don't have the original drive or a saved image of the original. I'm not about to spring for an Instacake image.

The original drive was 11.0m. Your image is working in a spare 320GB drive I had sitting around but hasn't yet updated to 11.0m.

I punted on getting the original drive to work. It probably needed a wipe and re-imaging. I'm guessing the OS got corrupted when I was having power supply issues. I cheated and have been downloading torrents to replace the recordings. Thank God for the log of recordings on tivo.com!

I'll probably cut my losses and copy the backup onto a 500GB drive and resell the TivoHD wiped. I've given up trying to recover the programs without a working OS.